RANAU - St Peter Claver Church (SPCR) here received a donation of RM210,000 from the Vatican Foundation to build a kindergarten (Tadika Kasih Bonda), currently located in the old church building (Fr Salm Hall). Father Nicholas Stephen shared the good…
NEW YORK - In 2016, over 40 million people were treated as slaves and about 152 million children were forced to work according to two reports released on 19 Sept 2017 by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) with the Walk…
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican bishops’ conference have offered their prayers for those affected by the earthquake that hit Mexico City and the state of Puebla on Tuesday. “We unite ourselves with the pain for the victims of the earthquake…
One of the most concise and cogent descriptions of these often strident times came from Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger in 1986. It is contained in, of all places, his treatise on the theology of sacred music in a book called The…
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has set up a new pontifical institute for the study of marriage and the family, replacing the organisation set up by his predecessor in 1981. In a Motu Proprio, published on 19 Sept 2017, the…
KOTA KINABALU - The Sabah government has allocated RM31.44 million in financial aid to non-Islamic bodies and schools throughout the state this year. The financial assistance will benefit 551 religious bodies, including churches, Chinese temples, Hindu and Sikh places of…
I joined Alpha in September 2016 for round 28. I thought it was just going to be like a course about Jesus and that was it. But instead Alpha has become to me a “beautiful spiritual pilgrimage” journey from my…
Below is the message by Bishop Bernard Paul, president of the episcopal commission for the pastoral care of migrants and itinerants (ECMI), Catholic Bishops Conference of Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei which was published in Catholic Sabah on 17 Sept 2017.…
PAPAR - About 25 members and their families of the St Simon Catholic Church Likas Pastoral Care Ministry visited the Holy Family Residence for Senior Citizens here on 29 Jul 2017. The sixth outreach visit for the ministry this year,…
PAPAR – After the Sunset Mass, parishioners of St Joseph's Church here gathered together to celebrate the 8th priestly anniversary of assistant pastor Father Rayner Bisius at the Mother of Mercy open hall on 16 Sept 2017. Fr Bisius, in his…